HC Deb 09 March 1981 vol 1000 c230W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he has considered seeking to exempt the 50 poorest countries from inclusion in the next multi-fibre arrangement and to impose stronger controls on imports from industrialised countries.

Mr. Parkinson

Differential treatment of the poorer and more highly industrialised low-cost textile producing countries is one of the many possibilities under consideration by the Government for the new multi-fibre arrangement.